Massive Attack: While carrying on about the election and the stock market, President Trump has been silent about the suspected Russian cyber-attack on US government and security computers. Security officials are assessing how deeply a suspected the attack has penetrated into national computer systems.

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday became the first member of the Trump administration to publicly blame the Kremlin for the attack.

  In a briefing with congressional staff, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “CISA”, said the breach was “highly sophisticated” and would “take weeks, if not months, to determine the total number of agencies affected by the attack and the extent to which sensitive data and information may have been compromised.”

  CISA said the people responsible had “demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft.”

  They don’t know yet how bad it is. The malware is believed to have been delivered by a seemingly harmless update for a network management program called SolarWinds. Federal authorities say computers may have been breached as long ago as March. Among the agencies the hackers got into is the Department of Energy, which controls the nukes.

  Other potential targets are the departments of State, Homeland Security, Treasury, and Commerce. 

Viral News: Vice President Mike Pence and congressional majority leaders Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi all got the coronavirus vaccine yesterday. So did Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who is black, saying he wants to encourage reluctant minorities to get the vaccine. Thirty-five percent of black Americans say they definitely or probably will not get the vaccine, even though they comprise a group hardest hit by Covid-19.

  They’re not alone. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Republicans are the most hesitant about the vaccine, with 42 percent saying they probably or definitely will not be vaccinated. Among Democrats just 12 percent say they would probably or definitely not be vaccinated.

  The FDA approved the Moderna vaccine, adding millions of doses to the vaccine pool rolling out.

  Another 2,877 Americans died of the virus yesterday. More than 18,000 have died in the past seven days.

Election Extra: President Trump is still fighting the results of the election … you know, the one held back on November 3^rd that he lost by 7,060,412 votes.

  Yesterday he tweeted that the governor of Georgia needs to call a special legislative session to overturn his state’s results. “So easy to do, why is he not doing it?” Trump asked. “It will give us the State. MUST ACT NOW!”

  In a separate message he said the Senate majority leader and “Republican Senators have to get tougher, or you won’t have a Republican Party anymore. We won the Presidential Election, by a lot. FIGHT FOR IT. Don’t let them take it away!”

  Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the convicted felon Trump pardoned, said on the uber right-wing Newsmax that Trump has the power to seize all the voting machines and, “He could order, within the swing states if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place ‘em in those states and basically rerun an election each in those states.”

  This man was a general in the United States Army.

The Uncounted: The Supreme Court yesterday dodged the question of whether President Trump can exclude illegal immigrants from the census count. In an unsigned opinion, the court said it would be “premature” to rule on the case because it is “riddled with contingencies and speculation” and even the Trump administration doesn’t know how many undocumented immigrants there are or where they live.

Georgia on Mind: With Control of the US Senate at stake, the Georgia runoff for two Senate seats is looking tight, if not leaning Republican. A few weeks ago the two Democrats appeared to be leading and now they’re trailing. A Trafalgar Group poll has Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler up by six points and Sen. David Perdue by two. The Emerson poll has both leading by three points.

The Bulletin Board: Congress passed a two-day spending bill to keep the government running as they continue to haggle over a $900 billion economic bailout bill. — The Pentagon says it agreed with the Biden transition team to have a two-week pause in meetings. The Biden people say they agreed to no such thing. — Former President Barack Obama revealed in an interview that his daughter Malia’s British boyfriend had quarantined with the family and the grocery bill went up 30 percent. He didn’t say anything about sleeping arrangements.

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